Chapter Two: Inviting Lure
Since he had awoken so early, Robin had quickly fallen asleep with his fair companion. Now normally, the other titans wouldn't have cared since they all knew Robin's weak spot for Star. But the key word there was normally because normally the leader would not have plucked up the courage to hold her like he did. So all in all, Starfire lying on him like that was not normal; Beastboy taking pictures for proof of it was. It wasn't surprising that she would crawl to him for warmth or comfort, not a bit. After all, when Robin had gone off on that silly mission to train with the "true master" or whoever, it really rained on Star's parade. Ha, rained? More like poured. It was now that the changeling for once wished that he had paid more attention. Sure it was obvious that Robin really cared for Starfire, but Star was completely unpredictable in her compassionate feelings.
Beastboy thought about it seriously for a second, had Star ever showed Robin more than mutual feelings to his face? She was, by nature, a mild tempered and real affectionate girl. Which was exactly why it was so hard to tell her feelings, she showed the same amount of affection to all her fellow titans. There were however, several clues that she had (probably without noticing) dropped to show her wish for a serious connection with Robin. Yes, she had shown more than mutual feelings for Robin. It was actually kind of funny that she, the titan who showed the most emotion was the hardest to evaluate as far as where love was concerned. At least Beastboy thought so. Raven was hard too, but he didn't think she loved anyone like that. Naturally, he was wrong but he wouldn't find out until much later.
Still, to look at his friends like that and see those so peaceful and happy made him, as much as he'd hate to admit it, want to cry. Hence the reason he was taking the pictures. That and blackmail of course. "You really shouldn't do that, you know." A voice monotonously drawled from behind him. Raven. Of course she wouldn't approve of him taking pictures until she saw for herself. Walked as calmly as anyone could ever possibly could in the early morning, she took a peek at her teammates. The changeling thought that Raven would instantly act like she normally would and go to boil some water for her morning tea. So it was a surprise to him when he saw a small smile grace her lips and she jerked the camera from his hands to take a picture of her own. This had been the most emotion Raven had shown in a week. In fact, he could have sworn that he heard a small chuckle rumble from her too, "It's about time this happened. It got annoying to see their feelings go nowhere." "You saw it between them?" He replied somewhat shocked.
"I can read minds, kid. There's no way that I couldn't have known. Why? Didn't you?" She replied with sharp wit… as usual. Embarrassed that she caught it before he did, he lied. Well, tried to anyway. "Of course I did! I was just… um… making sure you did too!" The dawn's light glimmered in her eyes, giving them an intimidating glow. A delicate brow was quirked as she gave him a look of disbelief, "Gee, I tell you I can read minds and the first thing you do is try to lie. Just like a guy." Then she glided over to her tea kettle and continued on with her morning routine as though she had not shown any emotion whatsoever. The strange thing about the titan's girls was that they were both enigmas. As much as you tried to figure them out, you simply could not. Starfire was hard to figure out because she acted so readable, but really she was a mystery. Raven was just flat out hard to understand. Why couldn't girls just be plain and simple? Why did they have to be so hard to get?
"Because being difficult is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off." Raven's voice monotonously echoed from the kitchen.
The green team member's cheeks changed complete colors of the rainbow.
